Chronological Record
From foundational geomatic engineering in Kumasi to national EUDR policy mapping and international forest monitoring — 18+ years of applied geospatial science in Ghana.
Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST
Appointed Head of the Department of Wildlife and Range Management, leading departmental academic governance, staff development, accreditation, and postgraduate coordination.
CSIR College of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Postgraduate study in climate change and integrated natural resources management, extending expertise from geospatial methods to climate systems.
European Forest Institute
Independent validation and accuracy assessment of Ghana's 2020 forest/non-forest cover map for EUDR due diligence and COCOBOD traceability, applying years of cocoa-landscape research directly to international forest policy.
WWF Japan
Mapped cocoa-driven deforestation across Ghana's cocoa-forest mosaic landscape for EUDR due diligence, producing evidence for deforestation-free supply chains.
Ecometrica / UK PACT
Improved land cover mapping capacity to monitor cocoa's impact on forests in Nigeria, extending Ghana-tested methods across West Africa.
Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST
Promoted to Senior Lecturer. Coordinates the MPhil/MSc Geo-Information Science for Natural Resources Management (GISNATUREM) programme since September 2014, and serves on both Faculty and College Boards as Non-Professorial Representative.
African Plant Nutrition Institute / CSIR-Soil Research Institute
Led a remote-sensing framework for site-specific fertiliser management on smallholder cocoa farms in Ghana, including gender-specific adoption diagnostics and crop-performance remote sensing characterisation. US$112,467 award.
GAF AG / Ghana Geological Survey Authority
Assessed requirements for an upgraded Geological and Minerals Information Management System for Ghana.
KNUST, Kumasi
Doctoral research on remote sensing of Ghana's cocoa-forest landscapes — the foundation of his cocoa/forest segregation methods.
CIFOR (EUR 125,300 subgrant)
Led field-testing of land use/land cover maps (2015–2020) for Kwaebibirem and Atiwa West, aligned with Ghana's national REDD+ monitoring protocols.
IUCN Ghana
Produced LULC maps of the Wassa Amenfi landscape (2016 & 2020), distinguishing intensive cocoa from agroforestry with field-validated change analysis.
University of Edinburgh, UK
Specialist training in forest degradation mapping techniques.
Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, University of Leicester, UK
Synthetic Aperture Radar training — radar remote sensing that sees through clouds, later applied to mangrove mapping at Keta Lagoon.
Dept. of Wildlife & Range Management, KNUST
Developed teaching in GIS and remote sensing for natural resource management, and built a research programme in cocoa-forest landscape monitoring and biodiversity assessment.
Ecometrica / UK Space Agency, with Forestry Commission of Ghana
Co-investigated and led the remote sensing work on a UK Space Agency project to protect and restore tropical forests — developing Ghana's harmonised cocoa-landscape classification scheme.
Dept. of Wildlife & Range Management, KNUST
Joined the academic staff and began building the department's GIS and remote sensing research capacity, coordinating the GISNATUREM postgraduate programme from September 2014.
Global Geospatial Conference (GSDI 12), Quebec
Co-presented 'GIS Application for Local Government Revenue Mobilization' — an early sign of GIS-for-development thinking.
Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST
Managed geospatial work for the Agroforestry Practices to Enhance Resource-poor Livelihoods project in Sunyani-West District, and administered the APERL GIS Training & Research Centre.
KNUST, Kumasi
Advanced training in geospatial science and engineering, specialising in Geo-Information Science.
KNUST, Kumasi
Where the journey with maps and satellites began.